A study has been in the works for sometime now on the control of Aids through the use of condoms. The Catholic Diocese has always been against the use of birth control but has considered the use of the condom for the sole purpose of controlling sexually transmitted diseases like Aids.

This study by the health council was started in 2006. The long study has concluded with no positive out come. The question is still in the air. The Catholic faith is probably going to stick to their no birth control policies.

Pope Benedict XVI has said he would consider all aspects of the study but the moral issues may be too great. The scientific and health questions the condom may answer can not overcome these moral issues.

The condom may not stop the spread of Aids but it could add fuel to the fire. A condom offers promiscuous sexual activity and this has caused the epidemic. What happens when there is no condom to use.

Abstinence is and has always been the Catholics motto on issues like this. It will be hard to change the policy of the whole church for the solving of the Aids epidemic or other stds.